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Fri, 2019-08-30

The U.S. Postal Service salutes the dinosaur that dominated the tail end of the dinosaur age with new Forever stamps depicting the awe-inspiring...

Thu, 2019-08-29

Cleveland Museum of Natural History Curator and Case Western Reserve University Adjunct Professor Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie and his team of researchers have discovered a "remarkably complete" cranium of a 3.8-million-year-old early h...

Thu, 2019-08-29

Research by Russian paleontologists revealed an unexpected diversity of insect pollinators in 99-million-year-old amber.

Thu, 2019-08-29

Clues from Canadian rocks formed billions of year ago reveal a previously unknown loss of life even greater than that of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when Earth lost nearly three-quarters of its plant and...

Wed, 2019-08-28

Dinosaurs are pretty cool aren’t they? Whether seen in films like Jurassic Park and Land Before Time, TV shows such as The Flintstones and Dinosaurs, or even in the gaming world as part of Jurassic World Evolution...

Fri, 2019-08-23

A team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Texas Austin has used a new technique to analyze tiny amounts of gas trapped inside 215-million-year-old rocks from the Colorado Plateau and the Newark B...

Wed, 2019-08-28

Thanks to its plucky band of misfit protagonists, heartfelt plot, and carefully rendered depictions of dinosaurs, the 1988 classic animated movie " The Land Before Time" has become an integral...

Wed, 2019-08-28

Dinosaur Ridge has been ranked by a panel of esteemed paleontologists as the no. 1 track site in all the U.S. One of those world-renowned paleontologists is Martin Lockley, who has spent his life studying dino...

Thu, 2019-08-29

She says her interest in the subject came about through reading encyclopedias. Paleontology is a branch of earth science which deals with the study of fossils and the evolution of organisms.

Wed, 2019-08-28

A new study led by Uppsala University researchers provides the first direct evidence of filter feeding in Jurassic pterosaurs and s...

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